The staff and docents at the Maier Museum of Art are looking forward to welcoming you to the Museum and engaging your students with our Art & SOL tours. These tours are designed to help achieve goals set forth by the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning. Art & SOL tours address objectives in Art, English, History and Social Sciences.

Here you will find:
• A direct link to images of the artwork that is currently on view at the Museum
• Specific SOLs supported by the tour
• Art vocabulary which may be incorporated into the tour
• Pre-tour activity ideas to help prepare students for Art & SOL
• Post-tour activity ideas to extend the Art & SOL experience

Important logistics regarding your tour:

• Each school is responsible for scheduling transportation to the Museum. Your scheduled time indicates tour-starting time.

• In order to provide a good docent/student ratio, we will guide your students through the Museum in three groups. The groups will tour simultaneously, each beginning in a different gallery. It is important that there be at least one adult from your school to accompany each of the three groups of students. That way our docents can focus on what they do best.

• Please let us know in advance if you have any special-needs students. We want their tour to be as meaningful as possible, and that may take a bit of extra preparation on our part.

• Because our docents use an inquiry/discussion method, they will interact extensively with your students. To help facilitate dialogue and to make each visitor feel comfortable and welcome, we ask that you

P.S. An evaluation form will be given to teachers at the end of each tour. Your responses are essential to improve our program, so please help us by returning the completed form to the Museum. You may also call or email Martha Kjeseth Johnson, Curator of Education, with any suggestions or concerns: 947-8136, extension 3, mjohnson@randolphcollege.edu.